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Title: After-thoughts of foreign travel : in historic lands and capital cities
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: M'Collester, Sullivan Holman, b. 1826
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : D. dLothrop and Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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filled;especially is this trueof all dissenters from theCatholics. The Protestants now in Paris num-ber more than sixty thousand, and are rapidlyincreasing. The missionaries sent from Eng-land and America, are being greatly encouragedin their labors. Let the Parisians become thor-oughly Christian in their homes and every-daylife, and their city would become more beautifuland enduring. Then they would be able to lead,not only in matters of taste, but in the high- 94: AFTER-THOUGHTS OF FOREIGN TRAVEL. est forms of aesthetic culture. Their Liberty,Equality, and Fraternity, inscribed upon somany public buildings, would have more than ahumanitarian significance. Their works of artwould receive higher tints and touches; theirphilosophy and literature would become broaderand deeper; and their lives would adorn theircity with grander attractions than triumphalarches, with more satisfying results than thefinest galleries of art, and with more instruc-tive treasures than the largest libraries.
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IV. SPAIN AND MADRID. f;^HE history of Spain is more than a drama;•■*- it is a tragedy. Looking upon its physicalfeatures, we discover it is favorably situated;but few countries possess such maritime advan-tages, being washed on two sides, and more, hynavigable waters; then, too, its latitude andgreat diversity of surface are propitious to thegrowth of almost every variety of vegetation.The grape, olive, mulberry, orange, and lemon,seem to spring spontaneously from the soil.The numerous mountains are unfailing reser-voirs to the brooks and rivers running throughthe valleys and across the plains. Spain is aland of beauty and sublimity. Its highest sum-mits covered with lasting snows, its toweringhills waving with oak and pine, its lofty crags,deep dells, cerulean skies, and salubrious cli-mate, all serve to render it exceedingly attrac-tive to man. Its first inhabitants of whomhistory makes any mention were Celts. Rudelydid they live and delight in the land, the waters 96 AFTER-THO

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